The baronetcy of Cuninghame of Corsehill was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and conferred upon Alexander Cuninghame of Corsehill, a Scottish baron and landowner in Dumfriesshire and a great-great-great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Glencairn. The fourth baronet's father added the name Montgomery before his own on inheriting the estate of Kirktonholm. Cuninghame, later Montgomery-Cuninghame of Corsehill baronets, of Corsehill (1672) Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 1st Baronet (–1685) was the son of Alexander Cuningham and Anne Crawford. He married Mary Stewart. Sir Alexander Cuninghame, 2nd Baronet (died 1730) married Margaret Boyle and had a daughter, Jean, and a son David. Sir David Cuninghame, 3rd Baronet (died 1770) married Penelope Montgomery by whom he had three sons and a daughter, the eldest of whom, Alexander, who married Elizabeth Montgomery, was father of the 4th, 5th and 6th Baronets. Sir Walter Montgomery-Cuninghame, 4th Baronet (died 1814), who, in 1790, styling himself to be "Walter Lord Lyle" was not permitted to vote in the election of peers nor was he granted leave to petition for Privileges Committee for recognition as such. He along with Lady Harriet Don opposed the claim to the Earldom of Glencairn of Sir Adam Fergusson of Kilkerran in 1797 despite having failed to provide evidence of his being an heir-male of an unspecified Earl of Glencairn. Sir David Montgomery-Cuninghame, 5th Baronet (died 1814) Sir James Montgomery-Cuninghame, 6th Baronet (died 1837) married Janet Cumming by whom he had five sons and two daughters. Sir Alexander David Montgomery-Cuninghame, 7th Baronet, died unmarried in 1846. He was succeeded by his brother, Thomas. Sir Thomas Montgomery-Cuninghame, 8th Baronet (died 30 August 1870). Montgomery-Cuninghame unsuccessfully claimed the title of Earl of Glencairn as the lineal male descendant of Andrew Cunningham, second son of William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Ayrshire Rifles. He married in 1832, Charlotte, only child of Hugh Hutcheson, Esq., by whom he had 3 sons and 4 daughters of whom, Jessie, Eleanor and William James survived infancy. Sir William Montgomery-Cuninghame, 9th Baronet (1834–1897) was educated at Harrow School and fought in the Crimean War with the Rifle Brigade, where he won the Victoria Cross. He was Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs from 1874–80. He married Elizabeth Hartopp in 1869 and had by her two sons and seven daughters. Elizabeth died in 1936 and both are buried at Kirkmichael in South Ayrshire. Sir Thomas